Iris Berger

Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780521517072
• ISBN-10: 0521517079
• Artikelnr.: 44380643

Autorenporträt

Iris Berger is Professor of History, Emerita at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of South Africa in World History (2009), Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History, with E. Frances White (1999); Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980 (1992); and the award-winning Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period (1981). She is also the co-editor of African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony and Refugee Rights (2015) and Women and Class in Africa (1986) and a past President of the African Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Colonizing African families
2. Confrontation and adaptation
3. Domesticity and modernization
4. Mothers of nationalism
5. The struggle continues
6. 'Messengers of a new design': marriage, family and sexuality
7. Women's rights: the second decolonization?
8. Empowerment and inequality in a new global age
Conclusion.